Beijing Escorts: UNICEF chief calls for end of "unspeakable violations" against children
… In her remarks on the occasion to mark the Universal Children’s Day and the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the UN headquarters in New York, Veneman said: “Let us remember the unspeakable violations of rights that occur almost daily to the most innocent of innocents, children.”
Saying that much has been achieved in the past 20 years, Veneman underscored that the annual rate of under age five deaths fell to 28 percent, 1.6 billion people worldwide gained access to improved water sources between 1990 and 2006, and that the gender gap has narrowed where more children attend primary school than previously.
”Children are no longer the missing face of the HIV/AIDS pandemic,” she said, adding that advances have also been made in child protection in the face of child soldiers, prostitution and early marriage.
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